Likewise, I bet the eponymous diabolical infant of Rosemary’s Baby was a beautiful miracle of fresh life despite his mother’s howls of horror. What I’m getting to is a couple of key issues that I feel need addressing. Firstly, nappy companies need to push for equality and cast some hellspawn in their commercials so that the Children Of The Damned don’t grow up feeling like fourth class citizens. The crucial point: most often the object of abject revulsion in the classic horror movie isn’t actually as bad as the on-screen characters hype it up to be....

“Obama embraced hip hop; that’s the way he got through to the kids,” stated the grinning Dizzee as he writhed across the screen responding to Paxo’s patronising line of inquiry (either he had ants in his pants or he was doing a sat-down alternative to streetwise swaggering). Our man Rascal is probably getting ahead of himself if he reckons that the USA is going to remould its system as a harmonious hip-hopcracy with an admin that drops rhymes instead of bombs....

I’d die broke, but I’d die the warrior’s way observing the Bushido code instead of killing myself in some crappy kitchen sink manner, like hanging from a lampshade in a Blackpool bedsit. (I have no idea how the unlikely scenario of sudden tremendous wealth would come about, by the way. Maybe one night I’ll go sleepwalking and pull off a successful bank job or one day open my email inbox and discover I’ve inherited a fortune from a mystery Nigerian relative....

Think about it: by 5pm on the 25th December most people are barely conscious, bleary-eyed and bloated, stumbling in a festive stupor spilling fluids over what remains of their relatives. Victims of the season, they’re lost without reason in a winter reverie that is only excused because, hey, it’s holiday tradition. Polite, ordered society would normally see such debauchery, disorder and debasement as unthinkable and abhorrent. It surprises me that George Romero hasn’t got around to directing Christmas Of The Dead yet and added a touch of tinsel to his oeuvre of undead flicks....

The Kings Of Summer has a smaller ensemble to work with, and is – comparisons acknowledged – a piece very much with its own identity. At the centre is Nick Robinson’s Joe, who’s struggling to free himself from the control of his father. But this isn’t a traditional nasty father story, rather that his dad, played by the brilliant Nick Offerman, has troubles and tragedies of his own, that he tries to make sense off with the help of his daughter, played by Community‘s Alison Brie....

Last Man on Earth has continued to strip away the layers of the Man Formerly Known As Phil Miller until there’s practically nothing left of him. Each time he tries to re-invent himself or change the story with a fresh wardrobe of lies, it’s only a matter of time until the seams begin to show and he’s left with even less than he had before. So it’s not too surprising when the last thing that he has left—his title of President of the United States—is ripped away from him....

The focus is heavily on Will Arnett’s Batman character, with the same wry, dry, undercutting wit that made him one of the flat-out standouts of the first film. It’d be fair to say that from the off that director Chris McKay and his team are very keen to give the audience what they want. Thus, you get the utter pleasure of Arnett’s Batman narrating the opening credits, giving you a commentary on the company logos as they appear....

Subscribe to Sci-Fi Fidelity: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Soundcloud TNTs hit fantasy-adventure The Librarians returns for its fourth season on December 13th, and Den of Geek spoke to Lindy Booth, whose character Cassandra Cillian now faces life without the specter of death constantly hanging overhead. Season premieres are just as exciting for the cast as they are for the fans, and The Librarians actor contingent plans to meet at executive producer Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment to watch and connect with fans....

This review contains spoilers. In the present day, we learn that Roger Allam’s Adrian Stone is a dementia sufferer. Back in 2014 we also learn that he had an existing connection to the girl we know as Alice Webster, and a dark secret. The final, revelatory line of week two was her asking him “How can you live with yourself after what you’ve done?” Post-It Notes at the ready, write this down: Other than tell traumatic stories about turtles, what did Stone do?...

1.2 House of the Rising Son It is, essentially, the third part of a three hour pilot episode, the first focusing on Klaus, the second on Elijah and the third on Rebekah. It’s a good idea, since each of the siblings has enough story to fill an entire season alone, but those little annoyances we tolerate in a pilot aren’t quite so forgivable once the show gets going. We laugh about how complicated the supernatural rules of The Vampire Diaries have gotten over the years, for example, and The Originals has the unenviable task of explaining those rules away in sidebars and offhand sentences....

That’s not to say that The Orville isn’t fun – it is! A particularly enjoyable scene centers around Captain Mercer (MacFarlane), visiting a very holodeck-like room to recruit his friend, a ne’er-do-well named Gordon Malloy (Scott Grimes) to be the Orville’s helmsman, while he’s in the midst of a duel with an ogre in simulated samurai village. The fact that the characters like Malloy and even Mercer himself are flawed and not necessarily the military’s finest adds a more modern flavor (despite its futuristic setting) to the ship’s new crew....

This all seems downright quaint given the subsequent casual mayhem of titles like those in the Grand Theft Autoseries — not to mention more serious real-life horror, but at the time this controversy was a huge deal that helped define the generation gap between 90s gamers and those who sought to harsh their gratuitous violence-induced buzz. If there’s something politicians know, it’s videogames, amirite? This 1994 news report is a perfect snapshot of the panic, fear, and “what about the kids?...

The Purge: Anarchy, again written and directed by James DeMonaco, expands on that premise, with a higher budget and a larger canvas to match. Where the ultra low-budget Purge 2013 was all claustrophobic interiors, with Ethan Hawke’s dodgy security hardware dealer and his family trapped in their own house by masked maniacs, Anarchy takes us out onto the mean streets of Los Angeles for a more satisfying night of State-approved mayhem....

First, the plot. A group of elite cops launch a dawn raid on a multi-storey tennament building that serves as the lair for an evil drug lord, but what is intended to be a swift, stealthy mission soon goes wildly out of control. Noisy gunfights give way to a hand-to-hand war in a combined space, as the cops are assaulted by the drug lord’s henchmen and the building’s numerous residents, all of whom are armed to the teeth....

Have you seen Single White Female? Then you’ve seen a better version of The Roommate. Have you seen Fatal Attraction? Then you’ve seen a better version of The Roommate. This movie is basically a mash-up of those two films, except without the terror, suspense, horror, gore, violence, intrigue, or sexiness of those two films. As it turns out, Rebecca is just a little bit, ahem, different. One by one, Sara’s friends stop coming around, her ex-boyfriend from Des Moines stops calling, and she finds herself spending more and more time with Rebecca, who is becoming less and less a roommate and more like a possessive girlfriend, except without the make-out sessions....

5.5 The Man Who Never Was Part 1 It seems that every couple of weeks now there’s a new Apple product launch. Whether it’s a phone that can play music, or a clipboard that can make phone calls, every time there’s a new iWhatever, people want one. And writer Gareth Roberts is clearly no stranger to those 8am queues outside the phone shop, if the latest episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures is anything to go by....

The Simpsons: Season 27 Episode 9. Ah movie parodies, is there nothing they can’t solve? Richard Linklater’s Boyhood was a cinematic breakthrough made over a ten-year span to cut down on old age makeup. The Simpsons’ “Barthood” was practically made live, costing the lives of thousands of exhausted animators on two continents. The Simpsons’ movie parodies are on par with Mad magazine’s record, for better and worse. This episode captured the poignancy and wit of one of the most definitive coming-of-age films with a much more subtle humor than The Simpsons usually offers....

Built in 1881, the Natural History Museum captured the spirit of an age that had just begun to awaken to the wonders of our planet. It was during the Victorian era that the old Biblical traditions that had dominated for centuries were swept aside by a new period of scientific discovery. Say what you like about the violence and evils of Victorian imperialism, the great leaps in geological and zoological knowledge were all made as an indirect result of this period of expansion....

3.13 Bringing Out The Dead The first order of business is Rick’s bad taste in women, something Elena refuses to believe. Last week’s plot strand of Damon and Rick hunting for Meredith’s true motives was a highlight, but things now seem a little less clean-cut. Fingers are being pointed in every direction over the murder of the doctor a few weeks back, even leading Sheriff Forbes to the Gilbert household....

This review contains spoilers. This week’s The Vampire Diaries marks the last before the annual spring break, and it’s incredibly light on plot for such an episode. Light on plot is not an issue the show is often afflicted by, but with Elena passively stuck in a cave for much of the running time, Stefan and Damon fighting over who the object of their pining hates more, and Caroline wisely trying to bat away Klaus’ advances, not a lot has changed by the time we’re finished....